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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here Clint in Bismarck, North Dakota. It\u2019s great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, sir. It\u2019s not only an honor to talk to you but also to address this audience.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. Very smart of you to realize this opportunity.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckles) I\u2019ve been a big fan ever since the Ron Brown clip.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. <\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s what turned me on to you. Hopefully my $10 phone is good and clear. I\u2019m calling about Measure 2, the property tax measure that failed here in North Dakota.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s got two dynamics to it. One is, you know, western North Dakota was hit pretty hard by a boom and bust back in the seventies and eighties. And they see a very real threat in Obama and the EPA coming after fracking and things like that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But as far as the measure itself, the mechanics were really bad. You had a lot of committed conservative people like myself who were opposed to it because it kind of… It was bad mechanics because the constitutional measure wrote that the state legislature has to come up with a magic formula to fund all the local governments and things like that. And it locked it into a measure so it couldn\u2019t be adjusted or tweaked. And the fact of the matter is, it wanted to take all the local spending and put it in the hands of a centralized — you know, big, for us — state government. And, quite frankly, the state government, the legislature has been spending a lot.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019ve been increasing spending, especially on higher education — which is a whole ‘nother issue — for quite some time.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, because of the influx of all the new money. They spent it. That\u2019s what governments do. Well, it\u2019s good to know that stuff. I\u2019ve got a time-constraint problem here, but I really am glad you called. That\u2019s the first understandable explanation I\u2019ve had of why this thing was opposed. So that\u2019s it. Clint, thanks much. I appreciate it. I really do. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Clint there had a good point. What if Obama is reelected and just decides he doesn\u2019t like fracking and cancels it? We know he doesn\u2019t like it. What if he just decides to tell people in North Dakota: As of tomorrow, you can\u2019t do that anymore? <\/p>\n
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